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Sentence

Eigentlich hab ich die Kinder ja ganz gern.

Translation

Actually, I really do like those kids in a way.



Analysis


eigentlich
     adv. actually
     adj. actual, proper
hab
     v. singular imperative of haben
     v. colloquial of
     haben
          v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
          v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
          v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
          v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
          v. to get (to receive)
          v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
          v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
          v. to contain, be composed of, equal
          v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
          v. to make a fuss
          v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
          v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
ich
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
die
     art. feminine singular of der
     art. plural of der
     pron. feminine singular of der
     pron. plural of der
     pron.          (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose
     pron.          (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them
     der
          art. the
          art. feminine singular of der
          art. genitive plural of der
          pron. who; that; which
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that
          pron. (attributive, stressed) that
          pron. (indicative) him, he
          pron. (differential) the one, him
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her
Kinder
     en:children
     n. plural of Kind
     Kind
          n. kid; child (young person)
          n. child; offspring (person with regard to his or her parents; also a baby animal or young animal, especially as the second component in numerous compound nouns)
ja
     adv. yes; yea, yeah, aye
     adv. (intensifier) obviously; certainly; of course; really; just; as you know; as is generally known (indicates and emphasises that one is expressing a known fact)
     interj. yes
ganz
     adj. entire, whole, complete
     adj. (informal) all (with definite article or determiner)
     adj. (colloquial) whole, intact
     adj. (in certain combinations) true; real
     adj. (mathematics) integer (of a number)
     adv. quite, rather
     adv. very
     adv. wholly, entirely, all
gern
     adv. willingly; gladly; with pleasure; usually expressed verbally in English, with like, enjoy, etc.
     adv. (only with mögen) much; a lot
     adv. (chiefly informal) easily; often
     adv. Used to indicate a preference.




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